A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'messing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
messingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of messing in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
king, no drinking and no more messing aboot, Aye I'll be a shoe-in (2020)

Mid Northern B

Fowler, Ross Sunday Fitba wi ma Faither, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
the fitba aroond the gairden messing aboot.
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s a o'er them noo but was nae messing wee this lad as Russian, 6ft (2016)

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ist fk the games going around messing with it, they can wait indy a(2020)

@g_hibby tweeted
Right peeps.. Naw messing aboot here.. Aye it's dry, bu (2023) twitter link

General Ulster

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
Messing aboot a managed tae knock owe
1 matches

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